Rotoscoped Maltese Short Wins Best Animation At French Riviera Film Festival
The locally produced 2D rotoscoped animated short film ‘Somewhere’ recently won the award for Best Animation at the French Riviera Film Festival.
Somewhere is an animated short by Fabrizio Ellul produced by Filfla Studio with the support of Screen Malta. This is Filfla Studio’s third participation in the FRFF, winning its first jury award.
Somewhere follows Vincent – a researcher at the Halo Space Research Centre – who makes a detour to a now hostile Planet Earth to retrieve an item.
In fewer terms, it is a story about ‘memory’, ‘remembering’, and ‘loss’.
“Thanks to the small team who worked on Somewhere: Feliciann Aquilina, Sirach Borg, Ivan Saliba, Matthew Attard, Paolo Biondi, and Owen Jay.”
The animated short was finalised in January 2023 and has already had screenings in Madrid, and Barcelona, broadcasted in the UK, and is expected to have other screenings in Europe and Asia.
This is Filfla Studio’s third production. Its previous animations included Filfla (2019), Mr. Teddy is Angry (2021), and Somewhere (2022).
It has also published a graphic novel ‘Sarangu- the Sack Man‘ (2021) which is available in bookshops in Malta, London, and Berlin.
Watch the trailer here:
Well done to all involved!
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